Man admitted to hospital for kidney stone,discovers he is a woman
男子因腎結石住院 發現自己是女兒身

People listen as Mariela Castro, daughter of the current Cuban President Raul Castro and the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education, addresses the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Community Center on gay rights in San Francisco, California on May 23.民眾五月二十三日於加州舊金山女同性戀、男同性戀、雙性、跨性別（LGBT）平權中心，聆聽古巴總統勞爾‧卡斯楚的女兒瑪莉耶拉‧卡斯楚的演講。瑪莉耶拉‧卡斯楚是古巴全國性教育中心的負責人。

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A Colorado man who was admitted to the hospital for a kidney stone received surprising news when the nurse came back with test results revealing he was actually a woman.

Denver photographer Steve Crecelius said he has felt a little different all his life. “When I was about six years old, I started having these feminine feelings, but that was in the 1960s. Wearing my mom’s makeup, I thought I looked pretty.”

So when he went to the emergency room five years ago, he was not too shocked when the nurse told him she found traits of both genders in his ultrasound results. He is technically intersex, meaning he had both male genitalia and internal female sex organs.

Steve, who now goes by “Stevie,” said his wife and their six children accepted his new identity right away.

Every one of them said, “We don’t care one way or the other. We love you for who you are and you’re still my dad.”

Crecelius and his wife, Debbie, have been together for 25 years and she has supported him every step of the way, including taking him to buy his first bra. She told Crecelius, “You know, when I first saw you, I said to myself, ’He runs like a girl.’”

For Crecelius, he hopes he can be an advocate for intersex and same-sex couples.